Shawl-strap handle and boot-jack



(ModeL) M. wymmsnw. Shawl-Strap Handle and Boot-Jack.

No. 226,766. Patented April-20,1880.

INVBNTOR i WITNESSES Maw;

ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS. PHDTO-LITNOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. DC

' adjusted for use as a shawl-strap handle. Fig.

2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a View, in perspective, of the device adjusted for use as a boot-jack.

My invention is designed to supply a want felt by travelers who, after having arrived at a stopping-place, frequently find themselves with wet or swollen feet and without means for pulling off their boots. With a view to providing for this want with an economy of space and without adding to the baggage the additional weight of an independent bootjack, my invention consists in constructing the metal hand-hold of a shawl-strap in two sections, which may be folded in one position to fulfill the office of the handle of a shawl-strap, which is a necessary part of the baggage, and which hand-hold may also be folded into another position to form a perfect and adjustable bootjack, as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, A A represent the two sections of the device, each of which is of a shape corresponding to the other, and is formed with a curved face, a, a bowed handhold, b, and an extension, 0, having a hole, through which the shawl-strap is fastened. These two sections A and A are strongly jointed together at d, and have at this point a pin or lug projecting at right angles, to constitute, when the deviceis used as a boot-jack,

a fore leg or support to elevate the forks of the boot-jack from the floor.

Upon each end of the extensions 0, carrying the shawl-strap, are also formed pointed bearing-lugs e e, which rest upon the floor, and when pressed down by the foot prevent the two sections A A from spreading while the boot is being drawn from the other foot. One

of these lugs is made longer than the other, to compensate for the lap of the sections and cause the boot-jack to set level on the floor.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARK W. MARSDEN, OF OONNELLSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHAWL-STRAP HANDLE AND BOOT-JACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,766, dated April 20, 1880.

Application filed March 26, 1880.

(Model.)

Upon one or both of the sections, also, there is a stop-lug, f, which, when the device is used as a shawl-strap, prevents any upward bending of the pivotaljoint. In making the pivotal joint it may enter the former with an independent screw tu'rning into a screw-socket in the leg d; or the leg (1 maybe made with a shoulder and a screw threaded end, which passes through one section and screws into the other; or any other suitable means ofjointing these sections may be resorted to.

The two sections A A are made chiefly of cast iron, and rendered malleable, and japanned or otherwise finished, and their adjacent sides are flat, while their external 'sides are rounded to form an easy hand-hold.

The different uses of this device are illustratedin the several figures. Thus, in Figs. 1 and 2 the device is arranged as a shawl-strap handle, while in Fig. 3 the sections are bent together upon each other until the curved faces a form a seat for the boot-heel-a seat, it will be perceived, which is adjustable to any size of boot-heel and depending only upon its angle of the sections.

Having thus described my invention, what,

I claim as new is 1. A combined shawl-strap handle and bootjack consisting of the jointed sections having each a curve to form the boot-jack seat, a bend or how to form the handle, and an extension to carry the shawl-strap, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The two jointed sections A A, constructed with a curve, a, handle b, and extension 0, and provided with one or more stoplugs, f, as and for the purpose described.

3. A combined shawl-strap handle and bootjack composed of two jointed sections, A and A, constructed substantially as described, and having a leg or support, d, located at the joint or pivotal point, as and for the purpose described.

4. A combined shawl-strap handle and bootjack composed of the jointed sections A A, constructed substantially as described, and having lugs c e of different lengths on their strap ends, as and for the purpose described.

MARK WORSNOP MARSDEN.

Witnesses:

SoLoN G. KEMoN, CHAS. A. PETTIT. 

